Mansion House Hospital

Perhaps the success or failure of treatment is best seen in individual case studies that follow treatment from beginning to end. The first is the postoperative treatment of Joseph Leavitt. John Leavitt of Portland, Maine, outlines the case and follows his son s progress for his wife—Joseph s mother—in a series of letters dated from June 6 to July 11, 1864.102 Joseph was brought into the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, after having his foot amputated. The operative site itself seemed to be improving, and his father writes on... 

NLM, MS C 303, HMD Manuscripts, John Leavitt, Letters to his wife concerning their son, a patient in Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1864. 

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